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Topic: the Food Thread

A thread for incisive thrilling talk about what food we cooked last night/week, how great it was recipies, pictures, blablabla. Not a thread for talking about how kr00sh and nekr0 your new classy frutarian diet is, and how it makes you better than everyone else. All diets welcome. Apart from stupid ones like the Caterpillar-and-Fanta only diet.

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Andy Malcolm wrote:

i really don't enjoy cooking. last thing i want to do when i get home.

Depends what you're doing. Sometimes I feel like cooking something slightly more inventive, especially weekends monday/tuesday when I'm off work, or if I've had a day at work thats passed fast. For the other times something like whacking some tofu and spinach into some pasta, or a massive pile of mashed potato+ sprouts and gravy is labour de-intensive food at it's best (or worst..)

Hence needing new ideas.. I eat wayyyy too much root veg.

I like cooking, I'm just really not confident with new things, even if they usually turn out okay. Might have a bash at that Aubergine curry tonight seeing as I have all the ingredients!

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curried parsnip soup simmering away in my kitchen right now? why yes, it is!at the weekend i am going to be making pumpkin and "ricotta" cannelloni for an autumn feast for my gf.i love cooking, and luckily i seem to be pretty fucking good at it too.

"the deadening futility of day-to-day life will be temporarily washed away in a flood of blessed and cleansing torment"

personally am a huge fan of cooking and think i'm ok but don't often try new stuff. so it's like one day a week prob fajitas, one prob curry, one probably bolognaise one make pizzas etc

actually I think i'm going to try and have a new curry recipe because currently mine's nice enough but ends up being a little like a curry stew or something. look forward to seeing any curry ideas forthcoming.

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fry some courgette strips and some chopped leek, add some cheatin ham, then soya cream, garlic, then a handful of cheddar cheezly. add cooked spaghetti, season with salt, pepper and chilli flakes, then finally stir in some pine nuts, mixed seeds, and a handful of fresh rocket.

aff dayFancy recipes bore me. 9/10 I just Mick Stewart it and hammer a tub of tofu into a tin of beans!

Not tried making chilli wraps again?

Ripped the arse out it last time I made them with a chilli sauce I tracked down in some dedicated Mexican/American/Spanish spicy food import shop. Put myself out of action for the best part of a week. I'm smothering everything in liquid smoke the now as a replacement. Dunno when I'll feel up to getting back in the saddle. Cooking with fire man, I swear it!

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Owt that sticks tee yer ribs, but big hearty unctious stews, dumplings and stodgy puddens are what the guts have been craving recently. Tonight it was mushroom stroganoff and gnocchi and a couple of weeks ago i began baking for chrimbo. No real food pics as such but i started documenting the process for some reason that escapes me atm. Its an old recipe and every ingredient has to be measured exactly and added in a certain order which is laborious to say the least400g currants225g sultanas225g raisins150g glace cherries70g chopped apricots and 65g candied peelthen i got to the bit where you add all the alcohol and went mad so decided to f*ck the recipe off and just throw in all the remaining fruit and a generous slosh of sherrry, madeira, port, whisky, brandy, calvados and some braggot and let it steep overnight. Next day forgot to take photos until it was baking so here we have a nice picture of a maslin pan big enough to bathe a child in that i used as a mixing bowl

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I like this thread.

Being back in Southwestern France (and in a quite remote area at that) does that I can't cook as much as I used as it's pretty much impossible to get most of the vegan substitutes you can find in the UK and whatnot. That means I've eating insane amounts of steamed rice and broccoli (almost everyday) and I've been trying to re-create some of the things I used to eat in the UK that don't exist here from scratch, such as kung-po mock pork for instance.

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homemade pumpkin gnocchi took ages to make but were well worth it, next time I'll make loads more and freeze it in batches. staying on the pumpkin theme I'm gonna make up a big pot of pumpkin soup and decorate with roast beetroot chips.

got tons and tons of parsley and mint in the garden so I have been making big tabbouleh salads

need to use up a shitload of sage so any sage recipes would be more than welcome

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Rémi wrote:

I like this thread.

Being back in Southwestern France (and in a quite remote area at that) does that I can't cook as much as I used as it's pretty much impossible to get most of the vegan substitutes you can find in the UK and whatnot. That means I've eating insane amounts of steamed rice and broccoli (almost everyday) and I've been trying to re-create some of the things I used to eat in the UK that don't exist here from scratch, such as kung-po mock pork for instance.

I'll mail you some shit sometime if you want.

And by shit I of course mean classy redwoods/frys/whatever goods. Although I could always mail you a piece of shit if that is what you actually want.